Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Romans were known for their Vestal Virgins, six female virgins who represented the royal house and tended the state cult of Vesta, the goddess of hearth. Violation of their virginity meant being buried alive. With the advent of Christianity, the Virgin Mary became one of the central characters of the religion. Then in the Middle Ages, medieval gynecologists were interested in determining female virginity, while male virginity was consistently overlooked. Even in the colonial period, Queen Elizabeth was heralded as the virtuous and Virgin Queen and the state of Virginia was named in celebration of this fact. Thus, our view...
...Pattie. "She didn't win the competition, and she was very upset with herself. My husband said to her, 'You don't have to do this anymore.' She looked up and said, 'But I want to do it.'" Before Lisa Iverson could even walk, she would crawl onto the hearth and hoist herself up on the fireplace in their Tehechapi, California, home and perform--and she would get angry when her audience's attention wandered. In her early pageants, judges couldn't get her off the stage. Lisa is now a member of the Screen Actor's Guild...
...beneath the bloody mayhem lies the same knotty issue that the Republican presidential candidate has himself been working hard to articulate: How do we keep home, hearth and the middle-class dream from eroding in a world ravaged by crime, drugs and sexual confusion? Profiler's Samantha Waters (Ally Walker) and Millennium's Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) are obsessed not with the individual madmen who each week slice and dice their way into the crime fighters' paths but with keeping the world impenetrably safe for their small children...
...ardor for the Gypsy. Like the Schindler's List commandant with his pretty Jewish captive, the judge both loves Esmeralda and hates the love she makes him feel. Frollo's aria, Hellfire, is a clashing symphony of red and black: crimson-shrouded ghosts line his way to a raging hearth, where he shouts out his twisted passion. This one will be hard to explain to the kids. But then Disney animation, from Snow White to The Lion King, is a parade of grim fairy tales about death, separation, betrayal. Hunchback has new traumas for the little ones; they will...
...they are too closely identified with TV roles in which they essentially play themselves. Perhaps their very living-room familiarity makes it impossible for them to be fully convincing on the larger-than-life movie screen. For whatever reason, the stars with whom viewers get cozy around the TV hearth are rarely the same ones they surrender to when the lights go down at the multiplex...